Re: athlon 64 dual core tsc out of sync

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:45 -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Clock ticks get lost all the time. The BIOS may decide do grab the
> CPU in SMM (system management mode) for many milliseconds at a time. 

And FWIW such systems should be considered horribly broken - this
behavior renders them useless for a wide range of common applications.

Lee

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